Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals

228 Ideals in the Modern World energy of freedom: it allows us to make new choices, take new branches in the path, even to have ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 229 conscious for that. He chafes inside. He aches and he does not usu- ally quite know why. But he doe ...

230 Ideals in the Modern World the general social world— which Freud, to be fair, does not always care terribly much about. Freu ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 231 achieve that unity of being that makes hope and creative energy fl ow again. Together, they might c ...

232 Ideals in the Modern World is past and that there is nothing new. Yes, says Freud, everything is past and there is nothing n ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 233 tions, won out. Love, it turns out, was and is the overestimation of the erotic object. Freud assau ...

234 Ideals in the Modern World to learn to answer: You don’t love me enough because no one can possibly love me as much as my re ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 235 to assume that his ego had few libidinal ties; he loved no one but himself, or other people only in ...

236 Ideals in the Modern World sacrifi cing when they did what they did and witnessed what they witnessed. But they were functio ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 237 Jesus and Buddha and Confucius teach us that it is possi ble to remove oneself from the sorry provi ...

238 Ideals in the Modern World We were once a courageous people, Freud said: once, but alas, no longer. The time was the late 19 ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 239 into three parts, which can often be in confl ict with one another. Plato’s map is a major revision ...

240 Ideals in the Modern World occasionally be an admirable quality to Freud, but it is not central to the struggles of Self. To ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 241 For Freud it is not only self- love that can inspire what we com- monly and (he believes) mistakenl ...

242 Ideals in the Modern World provocative and, given the limits he sets for himself, frequently quite accurate. That is to say, ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 243 elly say, but he knows exactly why he hops as he does (and never leaps), and why his pleasures are ...

244 Ideals in the Modern World the alternatives. Anything that could conceivably change the life of renunciation into the life o ...

Freud and the Ideal Self 245 ideals is no longer therapy. Therapy can have many values, but they will never be idealistic. All t ...

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Polemical Conclusion In the Culture of the Counterfeit Critics have often identifi ed current Western culture as a culture of th ...